Bug:

if you create a custom xenotype for your gene destribution, and you remove a mod that includes a gene in that pool, you will corrupt you pawn generation, this by itself is not gamebreaking, but it will slow down your encounter and combined with vfem2 it will prevent raidloot (worksites) and wandering merchant haveing stock.

Would it be hard to add a "random xenogene" pool for kids too? (i try to use the endogene pool to add some natural variation of inheritable traits, but in the same time i would love to add one of psycaster genes as xenogenes for kids too to simulate a random affinity with VPE and VPE biotech integration. works well for adults, but for kids there is no xeno-pool, also having the as endogenes would make it weird after a few generations)

Me: "This mod could be fun"
Later me: "Oh god I have too many weird gene mods for this to work well..."
Someone born with "Pilotable Mecha" gene does not end well lol.

Feature request: an option to stop xenogenes from appearing in tribal factions

How is this different from Spawn Those Genes?

Agreeing with Cringe shaymin. I love this mod. It's great getting surprised by weird little genes someone has picked up now and then. It shakes things up and is a ton of fun.

That said I also ran into a very frustrating event:
Bestowing Ceremony quest activated. As everyone gets off the ship, one of the guards is instantly downed, failing the bestowing quest. One of the genes he had was downing him immediately. I spent about 45 minutes messing with settings and reloading the game to get him to spawn WITHOUT being downed. Very frustrating.

A blacklist would be fantastic. That way VERY strange genes (it was called "Operator Required") like the one i was dealing with can't be randomly used.

This mod really just needs a blacklist feature and it would be perfect. I know you can set up custom xenotypes as a whitelist, but then those xenotypes with a hundred genes would be able to spawn as pawns and that's less than ideal.

This is a great idea, but a little clunky as it is. Would it be feasible to allow setting different pools for specific xenotypes? It looks like all the boilerplate exists.

This mod is absolutely amazing. Two dumb ideas I have on how it could be even cooler:

1. Instead of a "baseliners only yes or no", an option to select any xenotype in particular to be subject to mutations.
For example if someone only wants Highmates to be randomly mutated and other xenotypes to be their usual selves.

2. Seconding Farmer Joe's idea, option to do a reverse of custom gene pool and instead make a custom "any except these" gene pool.
Such as if someone wants super random mutations, but not game-breaking mutations, and so can blacklist genes that'd fall under that category.

I believe I found an issue
I installed this and VE Androids, and am finding pawns who are android xenotype but only have like 1 android "hardware" (gene) which turns them into an android but only kind of.
I suggest patching out androids from the genepool options because otherwise all I can do is set to "vanilla genes only"

is it possible to make a "blacklist gene pool"? I want to have all pawn spawn with at least one random gene of any kind, but wanna prohibit a few genes from being chosen

Can an option be added to prevent the characters in the initial scene from having random genes?I am always confused by random genes when creating new races

Yellow border for mutated genes

Love this! Good work with the mod!

I've just recently discovered this mod and it's honestly one the most fun I've ever played with. So many unique little changes can happen to pawns that just give them so much more personality. Thanks a lot for making this.

Idea for Gene lists:
Have a option to add genes to whitelist and add genes to black list option that allows you to select by xenotype and it adds to the list, it then runs the whitelist followed by blacklist to give a result of valid genes to be allowed on the list for the mod. this way you can have more flexibility with larger gene pools and makes it easier to make larger lists of allowed and disallowed rather than a single xenotype for an allowed list.

I noticed that if a Pawn for some reason gets any of the head gene options from Outland - Genetics it breaks the games render process until I manually update the pawn in question with another head using pawn editor or removing them using dev mode, is there a way to just blacklist some genes? or do I need ot add every gene to a single xenotype but the few that break it ?

Thanks for the clue about invalid xenotypes. After adding this mod world generation wasn't working (only 1 settlement would be created) and I couldn't figure out how a conflict could be occurring. Deleting everything in my 'Xenotypes' folder in %appdata% resolved the issue. Happy to finally start a new playthrough. Thanks again for the great mod.

thanks i'll see if it works...

@slurpme223300: I can't be sure, but I suspect you have an invalid (e.g. moved or deleted) xenotype assigned to one of your gene pools. I've updated the mod to add some fallback handling in that case.

Verse.LongEventHandler:RunEventFromAnotherThread (System.Action)
Verse.LongEventHandler/<>c:<UpdateCurrentAsynchronousEvent>b__28_0 ()
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart_Context (object)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:RunInternal (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object,bool)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object,bool)
System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext,System.Threading.ContextCallback,object)
System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart ()

RimWorld.FactionGenerator:CreateFactionAndAddToManager (RimWorld.FactionDef)
RimWorld.FactionGenerator:AddFactionToManager (RimWorld.FactionDef)
RimWorld.FactionGenerator:GenerateFactionsIntoWorld (System.Collections.Generic.List`1<RimWorld.FactionDef>)
RimWorld.Planet.WorldGenStep_Factions:GenerateFresh (string)
RimWorld.Planet.WorldGenerator:GenerateWorld (single,string,RimWorld.Planet.OverallRainfall,RimWorld.Planet.OverallTemperature,RimWorld.Planet.OverallPopulation,System.Collections.Generic.List`1<RimWorld.FactionDef>,single)
RimWorld.Page_CreateWorldParams:<CanDoNext>b__19_0 ()

(Verse.Pawn,RimWorld.XenotypeDef,Verse.PawnGenerationRequest)
Verse.PawnGenerator:TryGenerateNewPawnInternal (Verse.PawnGenerationRequest&,string&,bool,bool)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.PawnGenerator.GenerateNewPawnInternal_Patch2 (Verse.PawnGenerationRequest&)
Verse.PawnGenerator:GenerateOrRedressPawnInternal (Verse.PawnGenerationRequest)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.PawnGenerator.GeneratePawn_Patch3 (Verse.PawnGenerationRequest)
RimWorld.Faction:TryGenerateNewLeader ()
RimWorld.FactionGenerator:NewGeneratedFaction (RimWorld.FactionGeneratorParms)

this mod is breaking my gizmos
Removed null genes
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)
RimWorld.CustomXenotype:ExposeData ()
Verse.PostLoadIniter:DoAllPostLoadInits ()
Verse.ScribeLoader:FinalizeLoading ()
Verse.GameDataSaveLoader:TryLoadXenotype (string,RimWorld.CustomXenotype&)
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(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.PawnGenerator.GenerateGenes_Patch4

@ARR624:
Can confirm that the latest fix appears to have fixed the 1.4 issue mentioned by @Dee (I encountered the same error).
Just a heads up to others: I had to unsubscribe then resubscribe the mod to force reload the mod locally to get the updated, fixed version.

@Dee: thanks for the heads-up. I've pushed a fix.

woo! I’m excited. I missed this mod dearly. most of the other unupgraded mods I’ve done without are just UI and convenience, but this one is a major mechanic that was sorely missed

Hi!
@ARR624:
I am afraid you broke your V1.4 support with the V1.5 update. Running a V1.4 latest Rimworld version: On birth of a new child, there is a error in your patch for Verse.PawnGenerator::GenerateGenes. You seem to use the property Pawn.ShouldHaveIdeo which does not exist in V1.4 - leading to no children being born and causing a method does not exist error log entry during birth.

The line "if (ModsConfig.IdeologyActive && pawn.ShouldHaveIdeo )" in GeneticDriftPawnPatch.Adult() method is the culprit.

Thanks all! Using this opportunity to implement a feature requested last year by @Zombiefied and @lilwhitemouse - you can adjust the chance for xenogenes to spawn if the pawns have body modder/purist traits or ideology precepts.

thank you so much for the update! Been checking everyday to see if it has been updated aha <3

Sweet! Genuinely one of my favourite mods, thanks for the update.

Amazing! Thank you thank you!

I appreciate the update, keep up the awesome work!

Hi all, thanks for the interest. The 1.5 changelog and some code analysis show no changes in the relevant code for this mod and I've encountered no errors having done some limited testing, so I've gone ahead and bumped the supported versions. Let me know if anyone runs into any bugs related to the update.

would you consider adding a blackist rather than a whitelist for genes?

does anybody know if there's issues with 1.5 as is or should I wait for update?

Ever since seeing how Mr. Streamer did his wizards, this mod has become essential too me. Giving all pawns random genes and finding that one pawn with something awesome in hopes of carrying it on. Can't wait for this to come to 1.5

1.5? I got my brown pants on.

Looking forward to 1.5!

Same as Frank. It will be sad to play without this !

Been loving this mod in 1.4, I look forward to the 1.5 update!

Anyone else have an issue where you can't select too many genes or the box gets too small?

Is there any way to disable the android genes from VFE Races - Androids for normal humans?

For any one using Alpha genes and finding over 100 summoning skills dominating your gene pools, you can use Cherry Picker to disable genes you don't like.
I used it to remove the Aptitude genes from VFE Hussar too

This plus Xenotype Spawn Control makes the genetics aspect of the game so much better. Use you Xenotype Spawn Control to create “boss” pawns while using this to create gene pools that can pull from other mods like Alpha Genes for “normal” spawned pawns.

Hmm, vanilla expanded androids seems to give some funny interactions with this mod (android genes on normal folks). Also yes the animal calls are very very common

Yeah the animal abilities are WAY too common on generation

@Zombiefied - I personally would just make it a lower % chance - maybe they didn't WANT the new gene, maybe they were born with it? Fun story potential either way :)
@ARR624 - Loving the mod! But I just got a raid with a pawn who has Deathrest gene....which requires the Hemogenic gene....which they don't have. So you might want to put a requirement-check in?
In the meantime, I'm going to see if I capture this poor pawn who needs deathrest but gets no benefits

will you add an option to blacklist specific gene?

Loving the mod, thank you!

I do have a critic, though it may be better to post this on Alpha Genes I am not sure. Could the various "Summon Creature Genes" be automatically black listed, except the three core ones that then randomize into a specific creature? Currently about half of the genes that are randomly added to a pawn wind up being these just due to there being over 100 of them.